Internet censorship in Iran

According to the latest news near 20 million people in Iran are using internet and also Iran has the 2nd highest internet users in middle east . At first it was so easy to connect to all websites and use the information that were needed .

After election in Iran specially at Khatami's election and the 2nd of khordad reform movement some bloggers started to use the internet as a weapon to express their ideas . But the government couldn't stand this situation and started to block the websites , web loges and put limitation on using internet .

This situation got worst in Ahmadi nezhad election specially in second election .

Manybloggers, online activities , and technical staff have faced jail terms, harassment and abuse.

Recently, the Iran government required all Iranians to register their web sites in Ministry of art and culture. They also plan to filter all other websites up to 2012 .

Where is privacy ? According to what we have learned in cyberlaw no body can not stop you from what you believe and say , till the time that it's not against the humanity .

This censorship not only makes lots of troubles through the using internet and scientific researches but also is a symbol of breaking the human rights .

I hope one day we see the freedom in all layers of Iranian society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou-d4JRGVg8

Internet Filtering in Iran

As I was searching through the internet I found a case study about Internet filtering in Iran . It's so interesting , only in one year so many websites , blogs and IDs got blocked .
This research shows how Iranian government are blocking websites to protect themselves from protests and complains .
In this situation how we can expect people to follow the internet and cyber laws when the government are breaking international laws about the internet users' rights ?
Following line shows the research that I mentioned above , have a look at this link .
http://opennet.net/studies/iran

Electronic commerce Law in Iran

According to my study about business and commerce law in Iran I found that this part of internet law is more important in governments point of view . At least we have a well edited law draft for international trading through internet . Although it's not perfect yet but it can be a good step to reach to the higher steps of cyberlaw in my country .

Following link will give you an overview of electronic commerce law in Iran .

http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=5923

I am a genius not a thief!

28 years old Keyvan is a computer engineer who has educated abroad. He got arrested by the security guard of Iran 1n 9^th August 2010.

The reason behind his arrestment is that he accessed to bank security system and he transferred couple of million Tomans to his personal account.

Few days ago he contacted the Bank and said the security system of the bank got many problems and it’s easy to access, but the people in the bank thought that he is making a joke and didn’t take him seriously.

Therefore he decided to transfer the money to his personal account to prove them that the system is weak and the bank realized he transferred the money back to the Bank.

To defense himself at the curt he said: I never attended to steal something from the bank; I just wanted to say that I am a genius.

Also he did access to several government websites and warned them that your security system also got some problems

Researches for this person is still going on .and according to some sources its possible that the security administration use him as a consultant.

IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

There isn't enough information about this group and no body knows who are they , but some resources say that they are in connection with Iranian government.

This group attacked to several American and Chinese websites and also several Iranian web sites which have been against government. Some websites that they hacked are : Zamaneh radio , JARAS , Twitter and Baido .

In 2009 , Defense Tech one of the military and security institutes in U.S.A , according to the information that received from C.I.A said that Iranian cyber army is one of the strongest forces through five countries with the strongest cyber forces .

This institute also said that Iranian cyber army is working under the SEPAH's (an army group in Iran)authority .